Rail-anchoring device



w. M. ossomm RAIL ANCHORING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-l8, 192l- Patented Apr. 18, 1922.

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\VABZl-tEN NI. OSBGRI'T, OF CI-IICAGD, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOB T0 CHICAGO IVIALLEABLE CASTINGS COEIPAITY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CGRPORATION OE ILLINOIS.

RAIL-ANCI-IQRING DEVICE.

specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 18, 1922.

ApplicationfiledAugust 18, 1921. Serial No. 493,224.

main object is to provide a clip that will interlock the rail and tie plate, and also receive the spikes which hold the plate upon the tie; other objects and features will be apparent from the disclosure.

The invention consists in the matters hereinafter described and then pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing, Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing a pair of the clipsin place on an assembled plate and rail; Fig. 2 is a view in cross section on the line 22 of Fig. 1 showing the device in position on the tie, and Fig. 3 is .a detail perspective view of one of the clips.

In the drawing the reference letter A represents the head of a rail, 13 its base, and C the web uniting the head and base.

The plate consists of the usual body 1 provided near each side with transversely elongated spike holes 2 to receive the usual spikes 3 which are driven into the underlying tie t.

The clips, designated generally by the reference letter D, are of metal having a substantially rectangular body and provided at their inner edges with shoulders 5 to abut the rail-base and with flanges 6 to overlie the base. The lower sides or faces are provided with downwardly projecting lugs 7 whose inner faces are substantially in the same vertical plane as the shoulders 5 and whose lower ends are provided with inwardly directed wings 8; the flanges 6 and wings 8 are substantially parallel, the former being slightly beveled to fit the inclined top of the rail-base, and form a pocket or seat for the edges of the base B and plate 1. The ends of the lugs 7 are beveled or'inclined longitudinally from their centers toward their sides to form longitudinal tieengaging ribs or edges 9 which extend parallel with the'bodies of the lugs and s0 transverse to the creeping stresses or strains of the rails under traflic conditions; the ends of the lugs are also beveled 1n each d1rection from an intermediate ponit toward the ends to form transverse tie-engaging ribs or edges 10 which resist the cross-strains or thrusts on the rails. The two series of ribs cross to form a projecting point 11 to engage the tie. The clips are provided with spike-holes 12 arranged outside or in the rear of the lugs 7, and preferably with spikeheeling lugs 13 arranged in the rear of the spike-holes and with their inner faces in extension of the outer walls of these holes. lVhen the heeling lugs are used they are provided with inclined or beveled upper ends as shown to crowd or wedge the spike inwardly; they also prevent throat-cutting of the neckportions of the spikes by the clips or plates. The outer ends of the clips are provided with heels 1 which prevent their tilting and hold them in position against the rail-base. The upper faces of the clips are made slightly concave in front of their spike-holes 12 and also on each side.

of these spike-holes and the heeling-lugs as indicated at 15 in Fig. 2; this forms a transverse rib 16 of approximately the same height as the heeling-lug so that the inclined front end of the spike head finds a correspondingly shaped seat between the rib and spike-lug 13, and it also provides depres sions at the sides of the head to permit the insertion of aspike-puller under the head when it is desired to draw the spikes.

In practice, the clips are assembled on their plates on opposite sides of the railbase, the lugs being passed down through the outer portions of the elongated spikeholes 2 of the plate; the clips are then moved inwardly toward the rail so that their flanges 6* overlie the rail-base and their wings 8 underlie the inner edge'of the spikehole in the plate as shown, the convex lower ends of the lugs entering or crowding the material of the tie sufficiently to seat themselves in place. The flanges 6 and the wings 8 interlock the edges of the plates and railbase together, and when the spikes are 7 the head; the heads act on the inclined surface adjacent the rib to crowd the clips into place, and the lugs 13 heel-up the heads so that they are not forced outwardly by the lateral thrusts of the rail and the usual throat-cutting of the spikes is obviated.

I claim:

1. A device of the class described comprising a plate having an elongated spike-hole, and a clip having an overhanging flange for a rail-base, a dependinglug in the spike hole of the plate, a wing at the lower end of the lug underlying the inner end of said spike-hole, and a spike-hole in front of the hole 0 the plate, an inwardly extending wing at the lower end of the lug underlying the inner end of said spike-hole, a spikehole in front of the lug in alinement with the outer end of the spike-hole in the plate, and a seat in the-upper face of the clip for the spike-head.

3. A'device of the class described comprising a plate having elongated spike-holes in its opposite sides, and a clip having a spike-hole, shoulders at the opposite ends of the spike-hole, an overhanging flange for one side of a rail-base, a depending lug in the innerend of the hole in the plate, an inwardly extending wing at the lower end of the lug underlying the plate, and its upper face concave on each' side of its spikehole and outer shoulder.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

WARREN M. OSBORN. 

